Judd Apatow and Eric Fischl

Published: April 7, 2014, 4 a.m.

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Judd Apatow\\u2019s films\\u2014The 40 Year Old Virgin,\\xa0Knocked Up, and\\xa0Funny People\\u2014feature emotionally immature men forced to grow up after confronting sex, responsibility, and death. Of all Apatow\\u2019s movies,\\xa0This is 40\\xa0may be his most personal; it stars his wife, Leslie Mann, their two daughters, and one of his long-time heroes, Albert Brooks. Apatow thinks of each movie he makes as a letter, telling him something he needs to know about how better to live life.

Eric Fischl became known in the 1980s art scene for work that explores issues of sexuality and power and what it means to become a man. Alec talks to Fischl\\xa0about his\\xa0memoir,\\xa0Bad Boy: My Life On and Off the Canvas,\\xa0where the painter writes\\xa0candidly about his youth, the art world, his own struggles with depression and substance abuse, and his thoughts about the creative process. Fischl started as an abstract painter, but as he explains to Alec, once he began to work with figures, he realized he was\\xa0\\u201cdoing the work that [he] was supposed to do, that [he] was built for.\\u201d

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